it has been suggested that single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) in genes involved in toll-like receptors (tlrs) pathway may exhibit broad effects on function of this network and might contribute to a range of human diseases. however, the extent to which these variations affect tlr signaling is not well understood. in this study, we adopted a bioinformatics approach to predict the consequences...

prions are unprecedented infectious pathogens that cause a group of invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease by an entirely novel mechanism. the conformational change in prion proteins results in a change from a predominantly α-helical protein to a β-sheet form, which causes scrapie in sheep and goat. the present study was carried out to identify polymorphisms of the prion protein gene (prp) ...

The cysteine-rich 8K protein of Potato mop-top virus (PMTV) suppresses host RNA silencing. In this study, evolutionary analysisof 8K sequences of PMTV isolates was studied on the basis of nucleotide and amino acid sequences. Twenty-one positively selected sites were identified in 8K codingregions. Recombination events were found in the 8K of PMTV isolates with a rate of 1.8. Totally 30 haplotyp...

conventional methods for fungal identification in the clinical laboratory rely on morphological andphysiological tests. these tests often need several days or weeks to complete and are frequentlyunspecific. molecular identification mostly implies sequencing, which is relatively expensive andtime-consuming, as well as impractical for large numbers of isolates. the rolling circleamplification app...

structural and magnetic properties of purine and pyrimidine nucleotides (cmp, ump, dtmp, amp, gmp, imp) were studied at different levels of ab initio molecular orbital theory. these calculations were performed at the hartree-fock level and density functional b3lyp methods. geometries were fully optimized by following cs symmetry restrictions. the standard 6-31g** basis set which includes polari...

background: breast cancer is the first leading cause of cancer-related death in women. pesticides which are excessively used in northern iran are one of the most important risk factors for breast cancer incidence. the cytochrome p450 1a1 (cyp1a1) is a key enzyme in xenobiotics metabolism and snps of its coding gene has been verified to be important in cancer susceptibility. the aim of this stud...

introduction: using addictive drugs can change the amount of neurotransmitters, especially dopamine and glutamate. glutamate has been known to trigger the relapse and tendency toward addictive drugs. the glutamate receptor ionotropic nmda type subunit 1 (grin1) contains the single- nucleotide polymorphism c1001g (rs11146020) and encodes n-methyl-d-aspartic acid (ndma) receptor subunit 1 (nr1). ...